For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because " all good lyric writers are great readers.

* The Johnny Mercer song " Strip Polka " includes the lyric " Oh, she hates corny waltzes and she hates the gavotte ".

When Mercer wrote " Blues in the Night ", I went over his lyric and I started to hum it over his desk.

It was a face that had lost its childlike softness and was beginning to fold within its fragile features a harshness that belied the lyric lines of its contours.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

The memoir was diary entries, poems, letters, drawings, personal photos, and lyric compositions spanning from Love's childhood up until the year 2006, shortly after her release from a six-month rehab sentence.

Euripides was also a great lyric poet.

The Doors were banned on September 17, 1967 after they were asked to remove the lyric " Girl, we couldn't get much higher " from their song " Light My Fire " ( CBS censors believed that it was too overt a reference to drug use ).

The band was asked to change the lyric to " girl we couldn't get much better ".

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

This was the period of the blossoming of MHG lyric poetry, particularly Minnesang ( the German variety of the originally French tradition of courtly love ).

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Lewis Song " from the album Albertine, which is heavily indebted to Lewis's works, including the lyric " If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy / I can only conclude that I was not made for here.

" " The Letter " contained the nonsense lyric, " the ' puppetutes ' of love ," which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as " the pompatus of love " and used in their song " The Joker ".

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant favored American R & B music as a youth, but beyond the black musicians, he named Elvis and Orbison especially as foreshadowing the emotions he would experience: " The poignancy of the combination of lyric and voice was stunning.

The album was banned from sale at Wal-Mart, as in the " Love Is A Good Thing " lyric Wal-Mart is implicated ( by name ) of supplying guns to which children later gain access.

Sappho (; Attic Greek, Aeolic Greek ) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

In antiquity, Sappho was commonly regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets.

It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.

In the commentary of " The Note ", Julia Louis-Dreyfus facetiously suggests it was removed because the perceived lyric related too closely to the low ratings at the time.

Birtwistle's opera was praised for maintaining the complexity of the poem while translating it into lyric, musical form.

In addition, cover art, which had generally previously been restricted to a single image of the LP cover along with a minimum of text, began to be tailored to cassettes as well, with fold-out lyric sheets or librettos and fold-out sleeves becoming commonplace.

Dante used the romance of Lancelot in order to fit within the scheme of lyric love poetry, which Francesca emulates in her lines of Infernos Canto V.

Wonder brought the instrumental track to the 1966 Motown Christmas party because he could not come up with a lyric to fit the instrumental.

" The lyric was changed to fit the British title, wherever the title occurs in the lyric.

In many other respects, however, his philosophical and contemplative lyric poetry did not fit the narrow definition of Neoclassicism.

Sullivan complied, but also saved the first version, leaving an unusual example of two separate settings of the same lyric.

The documentary also contained sequences of Craig Potter demonstrating Elbow's unusual recording techniques at Blueprint Studios, Mark Potter driving around Elbow's old neighbourhood in Bury, Greater Manchester, Peter Turner showing cameras around Manchester's Northern Quarter, where the band played their first gigs as Elbow, and sequences of Guy Garvey reading through old and new lyric books.

They developed a reputation for their creative and energetic live shows, taking unusual measures to encourage audience participation such as handing out homemade lyric booklets and noisemakers.

Bands worth mentioning include Smitten ; Cadena Perpetua with their well-crafted and tight songs ; Romapagana certainly unusual and inspiring with their cosmopolitan mix of language and dinamic sound ; Shaila who also features many English lyric songs, unusual for Argentine rock ; and veterans 2 Minutos who soldier on.

" His most famous lyric is also unusual in its unexpected deep melancholy-the words to Paolo Tosti's song Good-bye!

This song is an unusual Beatles composition for a variety of reasons, namely its length ( nearly 8 minutes ), few lyrics ( basically the title is the lyric, aside from two more phrases ; only 14 different words are sung ), a 3-minute descent through repeated guitar chords ( a similar arpeggiated figure appears in another Lennon contribution to the album, " Because "), and abrupt ending.

The lyric style is the concert performance, and this style emphasizes the sweetness of the melody and the poetry of the lyrics.

His lyric poems as a whole give evidence of deep and lively sensibility, fine imagination, clever wit, and a true ear for melody and rhythm ; but an air of cynicism is more or less present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius.

The songs of classic pop may also be said to possess certain ineffable qualities, including but not limited to an ease and memorability of melody, along with wit and charm of lyric.

A fragment of the lyric ( changed to " Riding down from Bangor on the midnight train ...") appears in the quodlibet of the arrangement for orchestra and chorus of Charles Ives's song " The Circus Band ," though apparently with a different melody.

The slow movement of the First String Quartet opens with " an extended arch of lyric melody " ( Ian Kemp ), which was a direct response to the experience of falling in love: " all that love flowed out in the slow movement of my First String Quartet, an unbroken span of lyrical music in which all four instruments sing ardently from start to finish " was Tippett's own description.

Because of yet another recording ban by the musicians union, " Nature Boy " was recorded with an a cappella choir as the only accompaniment, adding an ethereal air to a song with a vaguely mystical lyric and melody.

Cantelon's idea was to have various artists recite the text over primal rock music, but Jones elected to try something that had never been done, to improvise her own impression of the texts, melody and lyric, in stream of consciousness sessions, rather than read Jesus ' words.

The tracks contained are varied with the inclusion of four remixes, live cover songs by Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk (" F. U. " is a joke lyric over the melody of " Bemsha Swing "), the band's first demos and joke songs.

The sharply dotted rhythm of this figure remains to accompany a broadly lyric melody played by the first violins.

A Khyal is a two-to eight-line lyric set to a melody.

Pilgrim's lyric sung to this melody, " He hath given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death ", was originally used by Vaughan Williams as an inscription on this movement ; while the contrasting agitated theme of the central section is taken from Pilgrim's lyric, " Save me!

For example, the melody to the lyric " And I will always love you " in the song " I Will Always Love You " over the I-vi-IV-V progression.

The article included the quote, " I learned the truth at eighteen "; Ian found that the word " seventeen " worked better than " eighteen " when she tried to put this lyric with the Bossa Nova-style melody she had been composing on guitar.

While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").

Sterling Holloway and June Cochrane introduced the song " Manhattan ", as its " easygoing strolling melody and ingeniously rhymed lyric related all of the everyday pleasures to be found in New York ".

The score was further revised, gaining a completely re-structured opening number ( though retaining most of the original melody and words ), a new song for Brenda (" Very Best Week of Your Lives ") that completely replaced the Orientation Sequence musically, a new song for Bob ( Bob's Song ), a new number for the winner of the pageant ( There Goes the Girl ) and a completely new melody and lyric set for Robin's letters home and a slight decrease in the time given to them.

The band's single " Calling " ( written with Jonah Matranga, who wrote the bulk of the lyric and melody thinking of Def Leppard ) was used by WWE as the theme song for the 2005 pay-per-view " Unforgiven.

It has a common melody and a returning chorus, but the lyric is fluid.

By the time of 1994's Kostroma Mon Amour BG's mastery of folk melody and lyric has grown to new heights, and a new band lineup was going full steam.

" Promised Land " is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of " Wabash Cannonball ", an American folk song.

The opening melody comprises the most important motivic core elements for the entire work, something that is not immediately obvious, owing to its lyric quality.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil-the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between two criminals comes to mind here-so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering.